Surah Al-Isra
Quran 17:14
Read Quran 17:14 from Surah Al-Isra (The Night Journey) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 17:14
اقْرَأْ كِتَابَكَ كَفَىٰ بِنَفْسِكَ الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكَ حَسِيبًا١٤
(And it will be said unto him): Read thy Book. Thy soul sufficeth as reckoner against thee this day.
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 17. Al-Isra (The Night Journey)
- Ayah
- 14 of 111
- Revelation
- Meccan (revealed in Mecca)
- Reference
- 17:14
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 17:14
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
ويقال له: { اقْرَأْ كِتَابَكَ كَفَى بِنَفْسِكَ الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكَ حَسِيبًا } وهذا من أعظم العدل والإنصاف أن يقال للعبد: حاسب نفسك ليعرف بما عليه من الحق الموجب للعقاب.